[freeside] Remote Host Disconnected: Connection lost after ssh connect

[ivan]

A starting point is the Freeside customer creation screen; don't attempt
the signup server until that works.

Since you see the connection in your shell machine's log, it sounds like
you have your `shellmachine' configuration value set correctly.

If installing consistant versions of F-Secure ssh-1.2.27 or OpenSSH
doesn't fix your problem, some other things to check:

- Try, as the freeside user, running the ssh command with the same
  switches as in svc_acct.pm.
- Is there something in your environment or PATH when you login manually,
  which allows things to work, but isn't present when running from
  within Freeside?

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:57:12PM +1200, Gordon Smith wrote:
> If your using OpenSSH 2.1, check versions on BOTH machines. SSH2 doesn't
> come with ver 1. It will auth then disconnect if version 2 is trying to use
> version 1 compatability mode. It needs to have ssh1 installed, and ssh1
> compatability set up in /etc/ssh2/ssh_config.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Koos Strydom" <strydom at prosperitas.com.au>
> To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:31 PM
> Subject: [freeside] Remote Host Disconnected: Connection lost after ssh
> connect
> 
> 
> > Hi Ivan,
> >
> > I'm in the process of testing freeside to implement it on our production
> > system ASAP.
> > I'm quite confident that the config is as described in the
> > documentation, but cannot seem to be able to get user accounts created
> > on our shell, mail or radius machines.
> >
> > I can as user freeside login to the aforementioned machines using the
> > command ssh root at host without any hassle, but when I use signup.cgi, the
> > WEB server just stands there and wait for a reply from the shell
> > machine. When I use the manual create customer page it seems that
> > everything is processed, but examining the other hosts I found no
> > records created in /etc/passwd or no user directories created.
> >
> > On checking the shell machines error log I found that user root did get
> > authenticated with sshd, but the remote host got diconnected
> > immediately.
> >
> > I've also inserted the following lines into svc_acct.pm to verify that
> > the variables is passed to svc_acct.pm
> > warn $username;
> > warn $uid;
> > warn $dir;
> > warn $shell;
> > warn $shellmachine;
> > and the errorlog verified that the variables is passed.
> >
> > What else can I look for?
> >
> > Your help will be appreciated,
> >
> > regards,
> > Johannes Strydom
> >
> >
> 

-- 
meow
_ivan